We decided to make our last stop in Peru a beach stop. You can find Mancora beach on the far north coast of Peru, it is not only meant to be very picturesque, but also a great surfing beach. Having pitched up at 5am, we found a cheap-ish hostel with a private room and balcony over-looking the beach, and about 10ft away from the sea. What a posit...

We had a very stressful day today and want you all to feel pity for us. Woke up around 10, got dressed, went to the beach. It´s much less windy today and the waves were breaking so we watched the surfers get tossed around for a while before deciding that getting pounded aainst the rocks was not our idea of a good time and thus ruled out taking ...

Ola again! Well, we said goodbye to Ecuador (our first of many countries on this trip). We also said goodbye to Diego - our trusty Ecuadorian tour leader. He was absolutely fabulous and we were all sad to say goodbye. We have met our new tour leader for Peru & Bolivia. His name is Sebastian and he seems to have his finger on the pulse as wel...

Busés are very random in Peru and all the bus companies have their own policies. I went with El Dorado to Mancora on a nite bus and their policy was to check your passport which is fair enough, then they fingerprint you and they go around with a camcorder on the bus videoing everyone who is on it. Tad intrusive but they get you there. Once i got...

After Mancora I also managed to visit Huanchaco, another small beach further down south along the Peruvian coast (close to Trujillo). I spent the Christmas holidays in Mancora and New Year's Eve in Huanchaco. I'm going to try to compare the two places below and in my next entry, as far as I managed to experience them. My first impressions of Man...

hey all. since i have last wrote I have done nothing extra ordinary, rather just sit on the beach, and do a little reading. The day after I arrived I was coming down the stairs of my hostel and went over on my ankel pretty hard, it was pretty swolen, and playing soccer the following days didnt help the swelling, but it seems to be getting better...

Not much to report from Mancora since I was pretty ill for the most part and sadly missed the deadly punch and pig on the spit we had with another tour group but did get to taste the bread lady on the beach`s rolls which are fantastic, ben on the beach at 1pm anyday for a treat...! Nice quiet place but not the best for me when ill, off south...

Unfortunate realisation 1) It was the birthday of my big sis and since i haven't heard her voice since May I was somewhat looking forward to giving her a call. However, me and linz decided that instead of taking the expensive bus, we would more than halve our costs by taking the cheap bus, followed by the taxi, followed by another cheap bus. unf...

Well, so i left Cuzco feeling a bit more alive and ready for another 17 hour bus ride, and went back the way i came to Lima. Ive not heard great things about the place so i was going to skip through very quickly. However, i was there long enough to have a night with some friends from Sucre (met weeks ago), Niv, Sarah and Anne. Also had a pub qui...

I have been positively flying these last two weeks to get to Quito in time for my Galapagos trip. From Lima I went to Huaraz, Peru's hiking mecca. Unfortunately I only had one night here (which is a shame as it was really nice) but managed to fit in a 6 hour day hike up to Laguna 69, which was gorgeous, so blue! Then got another bus to Trujillo,...